[RFC PATCH 06/10] arm64: read thread flags

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Wed Jun 09 2021 - 08:20:40 EST


Some thread flags can be set remotely, and so even when IRQs are
disabled, the flags can change under our feet. Generally this is
unlikely to cause a problem in practice, but it is somewhat unsound, and
KCSAN will legitimately warn that there is a data race.

To avoid such issues, we should snapshot the flags prior to using them.
Let's use the new helpers to do so on arm64.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 ++--
arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index eb2f73939b7b..a6103b997664 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1834,7 +1834,7 @@ static void tracehook_report_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs,

int syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- unsigned long flags = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->flags);
+ unsigned long flags = read_thread_flags();

if (flags & (_TIF_SYSCALL_EMU | _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)) {
tracehook_report_syscall(regs, PTRACE_SYSCALL_ENTER);
@@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@ int syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)

void syscall_trace_exit(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- unsigned long flags = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->flags);
+ unsigned long flags = read_thread_flags();

audit_syscall_exit(regs);

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
index 6237486ff6bb..ed113659425d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs,
}

local_daif_mask();
- thread_flags = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->flags);
+ thread_flags = read_thead_flags();
} while (thread_flags & _TIF_WORK_MASK);
}

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c
index 263d6c1a525f..badf1789dc3d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ void syscall_trace_exit(struct pt_regs *regs);
static void el0_svc_common(struct pt_regs *regs, int scno, int sc_nr,
const syscall_fn_t syscall_table[])
{
- unsigned long flags = current_thread_info()->flags;
+ unsigned long flags = read_thread_flags();

regs->orig_x0 = regs->regs[0];
regs->syscallno = scno;
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static void el0_svc_common(struct pt_regs *regs, int scno, int sc_nr,
*/
if (!has_syscall_work(flags) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ)) {
local_daif_mask();
- flags = current_thread_info()->flags;
+ flags = read_thread_flags();
if (!has_syscall_work(flags) && !(flags & _TIF_SINGLESTEP))
return;
local_daif_restore(DAIF_PROCCTX);
--
2.11.0